With more than 15 (!) productions set to open on Broadway before the end of the 2025-2026 season, it can seem like a daunting prospect to choose which shows to see. Playbill recently suggested five ...

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Of course I asked André Gregory and Wallace Shawn to dinner. How could I not? Well, it ended up being more of a late lunch. Gregory is 91, Shawn 82, and while they’re both in good health, they’re not ...

Principal photography has begun in Ireland on The Weir, a new feature directed by Conor McPherson, based on his Olivier Award-winning play of the same name. The stage production received nominations ...

For playwright Kallan Dana, having Racecar Racecar Racecar produced at Artists Repertory Theatre is a special homecoming. “I feel so lucky to get to come back and do a show there,” she says. “The ...

The winners of the Meanwhile Park Playwright Prizes 2026 and 2027 have been selected. Chosen after reviewing over 275 submissions, the winner of the 2026 prize is Matthew Ivan Bennett's play "A French ...

EXCLUSIVE: British playwright, screenwriter and director Alexander Zeldin has signed with CAA. The signing comes as Zeldin’s critically-acclaimed play The Other Place is about to have its New York ...

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Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit, against the prominent Off Broadway theater, is backed by Edward Blum, who has long challenged race-based policies. Playwrights called it ...

This story originally published May 22, 2025, in the Our Town section of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This is one of Katy Henriksen's top stories of the year. Since originally reporting ...